Friday, February 21, 2014

Port city “pump and dump” deal: Harsha

  • Criticises plan to sell land to Chinese company, says prices will fall
  • Claims project is not FDI as Govt. will guarantee loan from EXIM bank
  • Alleges transactions questionable as company banned by World Bank in 2009, suspicious deals in 7 countries
PortBy Uditha Jayasinghe  -February 21, 2014  
Pinpointing a shocking aberration from good governance UNP MP Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday laid bare what he termed a “dump and pump” scheme of the Government concerning the proposed US$ 1.4 billion port city project, which is to be developed with a Chinese company banned by the World Bank.